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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2006)

2007 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.7
WAB — wins above budget
-2.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.0
roster fWAR
$52.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon Webb 28 arb 34 5.6 4.5 +7.5
Eric Byrnes 31 FA-elig 160 3.6 4.6 +3.1
Micah Owings 24 – 35 3.0 – –
Orlando Hudson 29 arb 139 2.6 3.9 +1.5
Mark Reynolds 23 – 111 1.8 – –
Doug Davis 31 FA-elig 33 1.7 5.5 -2.0
Chris Snyder 26 arb 110 1.6 0.4 +3.0
Randy Johnson 43 FA-elig 10 1.5 9.1 -5.9
Brandon Lyon 27 FA-elig 73 1.5 1.5 +1.7
Jose Valverde 29 arb 65 1.4 2.0 +1.1
Conor Jackson 25 pre-arb 130 1.1 0.4 +1.9
Chris Young 23 pre-arb 148 0.8 0.4 +1.3
Ramon Pena 25 pre-arb 75 0.7 0.4 +1.1
Chad Tracy 27 arb 76 0.7 3.0 -1.6
Juan Cruz 28 FA-elig 53 0.6 1.4 -0.2
Jeff Salazar 26 – 38 0.5 – –
Scott Hairston↔ SDP 27 arb 76 0.5 0.3 +0.7
Livan Hernandez 32 FA-elig 34 0.3 7.0 -6.3
Augie Ojeda 32 – 57 0.3 – –
Edgar Gonzalez 24 arb 32 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Dustin Nippert 26 pre-arb 36 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Doug Slaten 27 pre-arb 61 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Bob Wickman↔ ATL 38 FA-elig 8 0.1 0.9 -0.8
Mike Schultz 27 – 1 0.0 – –
Tony Clark 35 FA-elig 113 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Dana Eveland 23 – 5 0.0 – –
Randy Choate 31 – 2 0.0 – –
J.D. Durbin↔ PHI 25 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Enrique Gonzalez 24 – 1 -0.0 – –
Yusmeiro Petit 22 – 14 -0.0 – –
Jason Smith↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Emilio Bonifácio 22 – 11 -0.0 – –
Donnie Sadler 32 – 1 -0.0 – –
Jeff Cirillo↔ MIN 37 FA-elig 28 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Bill Murphy 26 – 10 -0.1 – –
Byung-Hyun Kim↔ COL 28 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Carlos Quentin 24 pre-arb 81 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Jeff DaVanon↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 13 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Joe Kennedy↔ OAK 28 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Robby Hammock 30 arb 34 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Jailen Peguero 26 – 18 -0.2 – –
Brian Barden↔ STL 26 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Miguel Montero 23 pre-arb 84 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Stephen Drew 24 pre-arb 150 -0.6 1.5 -2.7
Justin Upton 19 – 43 -0.6 – –
Brandon Medders 27 pre-arb 30 -0.7 0.4 -1.8
Alberto Callaspo 24 pre-arb 56 -1.1 0.4 -2.7

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (70%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for ARI
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Curt Schilling200021.4
Patrick Corbin201016.5
Chris Young200514.5
David Peralta201414.5
Nick Ahmed201312.9
Robbie Ray201411.8
Merrill Kelly201910.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Max Scherzer200922.2
Paul Goldschmidt201821.3
Dansby Swanson201516.1
Curt Schilling200315.2
Brett Anderson200711.5
Ender Inciarte201511.4
Mitch Haniger201611.1
Brad Penny19999.7
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.